A discarded license plate found in rural Wisconsin has led to a massive federal investigation and the takedown of a ...

Haupt said the cost to make a set of license plates is $2.59. The cost to make a single license plate would be reduced to $1.99, as the cost of labor outweighs the cost of aluminum, he said.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department for allegedly sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas ...

The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias spoke Thursday morning on reports that Texas police illegally accessed Illinois automatic license plate reader data to track down a ...

A suburban Chicago police department is accused of sharing license-plate reader data with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

According to Giannoulias, police in Mount Prospect, 24 miles (39 kilometers) northwest of Chicago, shared license-plate data with the sheriff in Johnson County, Texas, who was looking for a woman ...

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, then-Illinois Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Chicago. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP ...

The technology, called Automatic License Plate Recognition, is helpful in tracking stolen vehicles or carjackings, missing persons and in other authorized cases.